Literature’s “Women Problem” – Spurred by Wikipedia’s recent move to separate female writers from American writers, Brainpickings revisits anecdotes by Margaret Atwood, Joyce Carol Oates and more on the issue of being “a writer who is also a woman.”

On the Road, now in Google Maps– A German student, Gregor Weichbrodt, plugged all the coordinates mentioned in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road into Google Maps, creating a new document for Beat die-hards to follow.

“Television’s golden age is also a gilded cage, an always-on ecosystem of immense riches that leaves me feeling less like the master of my own universe, and more as if I am surrounded.” — David Carr, “Barely Keeping Up in TV’s New Golden Age,” The New York Times